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@BowsacNoodle @7073M @EvolLove @plotinus_enjoyer @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired Think of how idiosyncratic just the name "National Socialism" is. One idea is "national" the other international. If you want to boil it down to a national system with a socialist-like economic system, that's not that far off from Norway or France today.
It was obviously a really big idea that never got proper articulation. You can't say there's a bible written about National Socialism, or a tome of knowledge. There's no great knowledge of National Socialism you can posess, but at the same time it was such an explosive idea it launched a revolution and then a huge war in Europe. Somehow with seemingly no philosophical backing it was able to reach huge, never before seen highs. It was a spiritual revolution, and although it lost to the might of the two emerging superpowers, it's lived "rent free" in our heads and been vindicated on a wide range of stuff. Racial theories were vindicated in the 90s. Theory about power and it's relationship to politics are being vindicated right now. A lot of hyper-modern thought was laced within it but it didn't start to really articulate itself until the internet came around. I think it's a hyper-modern political theory that is still building itself up as an idea that can be implimented.
On the one hand everything calls back to it, on the other nothing looks like it. Hitler didn't know what DNA was but was grasping at the idea at the time. I think it'll take a while longer to develop itself and it won't be called "National Socialism," but all future thought is going to look back to it or take inspiration from it.